Seeds of Disaster: Sub-Index Cast=Jik Dain Bedlip

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agitation RE Bears working
aircraft
- bubble canopy &2
- ceramalloy skin
  - ticked as it cooled
- controls sat dark
- Dain rides ahead of any noisy proof that engines labored to keep him airborne
- Dain strides back thru it
- dance-fought thermals
- door
  - leads to a ramp
  - opens in its side
- foilscreen at Dain's knee echoed Kär's verbal message
- foilscreen by his left knee
- landed gently on the veldt
- passenger compartment
- ramp
- shifted configurations
- sitting dormant at the edge of the arena
- told it coordinates
- transparent, bulbous chamber at its very nose
- wing swept towards the back
alters
- as Bailey
  - as an unused jumpseat &2 &3
  - as bud supposedly integrated
  - calls time for Dain
  - Dain has dealt with buds before
  - gives Dain insight to foiling JDB
  - in scene
  - inherited skills from JDB
  - no blindly following tyrants
  - no fear of death implied &2
  - no mob violence
  - no more competition, especially violent competition
  - no my-race-is-better-than-yours
  - no putting others down to make me feel better about myself
  - odor
  - sandalwood=desert-borne musk
  - scent of sandalwood
  - trace of sandalwood and ... a jingle of laughter
- as Bedlip
  - Fin Boerge Ousland
    - Name Source
    - rival in class
  - first combine
  - gives inspiration and tone to Dain to flavor his speech
  - in scene
    - all &2 &3 &4 &5 &6 &7
    - character &2 &3 &4 &5
    - mentioned
    - PoV &2 &3
  - rescued the splintered psyche, even before JDB had come along
  - sink for fretting
  - that part of his life
  - touch of congratulations
- as JDainB
  - accepts Phoebe's can-feel request for Dain
  - align with JDB
  - appearance
    - a single eye
    - dribbling nose
  - behavior
    - speech
      - filthy words like erupting buboes
  - celebrates the fickle finger of chance
  - cinema, full of wondrous possibilities, its soundtrack blaring with Shennongjia a cappella
  - Dain won't notice his absence
  - deranged form
  - in scene
    - all &2 &3 &4 &5 &6 &7 &8 &9 &10 &11 &12 &13
    - character &2 &3 &4 &5 &6 &7
    - implied &2
    - mentioned &2 &3
    - not printed
    - PoV &2 &3 &4 &5 &6
  - purpose
  - special link to JDB
- as JDB
  - "I am done" as foreshadowing his withdrawal from life
  - "saving children"
    - Dain realizes it's real
    - revealed to other egos
  - align with JDainB
  - bequeathed skills to Bailey
  - clouds Dain's ken of aircraft cabinet
  - co-dominant with Dain
  - disappeared
  - explain unusual reticence today?
  - in scene
    - all &2 &3 &4 &5 &6 &7 &8 &9 &10 &11 &12 &13 &14 &15 &16 &17
    - character &2 &3 &4 &5 &6 &7 &8
    - mentioned &2 &3 &4
    - PoV &2 &3 &4 &5 &6 &7 &8
  - invited to wrestle
  - like a lion, without artifice, without strategy
  - like an elbow jutting into Dain's mind
  - memories controlled by &2
  - mission of restitution
    - explained
    - JDainB now a steward
    - now shared with JDainB
    - saved so many children from the anguish that was adult life
    - would Dain need its token anymore?
  - muscular back
  - pivot-memory
    - JDainB acknowledges the transfer
    - levers Dain out of the way
    - slipped into JDainB's claw
  - quick, violent solution to Thy
  - reservoir for violence because it's useful
  - saves Child #1
  - slams door on invite to fight
  - special link to JDainB
    - implied
    - pawing quietly down it
    - takes him into exile
    - wants ~ for vendetta
  - takes control of body
  - torrent of imagination promises grand scenes of the future
  - transforms anger &2
  - would lead Le Coeur into unpremeditated disaster
- as jDub
  - answers with blank graph
  - Bouncin' Betty &2
  - created on purpose with determined and familiar pathology
  - doesn't talk
  - exclusive access to medulla modem
  - frustrated pride
  - in scene
    - all &2 &3 &4 &5 &6 &7 &8 &9
    - character &2 &3 &4 &5 &6
    - mentioned &2 &3
    - PoV
  - knows a lot about the people Dain intended to rule
  - mission=the warp and woof of its inhabitants
  - only alter with read-only access to Dain's plan
  - searches after an illusive aspect of human nature, identity
  - sporadic after-effect of visiting
  - status report
    - alignment of BH Partners
    - authority over BH budgets
    - control over BH combines
    - described
    - double image of a nattering present and a tantalizing future
    - Ganj Dareh specifics
      - Dain doesn't care yet
    - influence on Norma's personal agenda
      - no change at all
      - None &2
    - public and private contracts
    - tlaxtli teams deployed at arenas
  - summary
    - abacus not offered
- as Jikki
  - childish progenitor
  - counted only as icon, the image they all labored to protect
  - in scene
    - all &2 &3 &4 &5 &6 &7
    - character &2 &3
    - mentioned &2 &3 &4
    - PoV
  - integrated like the others, giving Dain back his childhood
- as the wraith
  - gives distress and sorrow to Dain to flavor his speech
  - in scene
    - all &2 &3
    - character &2
    - mentioned
- as the wraithe
  - in scene
    - all &2 &3 &4
    - character &2
    - mentioned
    - PoV &2
- betray Dain's being charge
- betray Dain's being in charge
- center of perception &2
  - a command shook Dain's control
  - Dain clutched ~
  - Dain mounted ~
  - Dain reached for it
  - Dain seated behind JDB
  - Dain sniffed carefully around ~
  - how often had he been displaced from it
  - JDB swarmed over it, displacing Dain
  - swirled around Bedlip
- Dain emerged from Bedlip's adolescent successes and failures
- distort mirror image
- dungeon
  - as oblivion
  - brass doorknob
  - door
  - grainy and solid treads
  - imaginary stoop
  - its wooden stoop
  - stir in their ~
- feelings his emotions only
- fragmenting under the pressure of reaching their final goal
- generated as decoys/traps for fear
- in lost time
  - clues on body helped indicate who'd stolen time
  - different this time
  - never could remember who he'd lost time to
  - normally w/memories
  - normally w/think-time
  - only past and future lay within reach
  - so much smaller without senses
- mental landscape
  - as swirling gray backdrop
  - door appeared in ~
- neural paths of their body
- none experience joy
- origin implied
- psychic coup d'etat
- reintegration
  - accepted at last
  - Dain integrated himself
  - rediscovers the thrill of success
  - self-achievement
  - takes in Bedlip
  - takes in JDB
  - takes in jDub
  - the wraithe plugs se back in
  - the wraithe was killed by Dain, according to JDB
  - why did it fail?
- takes over Leez's combines
- together, they could banish Dain to oblivion
- vs Bailey
  - Fear of what he could do to himself chomped hard on his gut
- vs Phoebe
  - anshin will-see
    - infringing on his space just like before in ~
- web of connection &2 &3 &4
  - Dain yanks on it
appearance
- attire=business
- body=never seen nude
- body=short, slender
- business suit described
- carved from glacial ice, ancient, arctic, patterned with seams
  - described by Norma
- casual-suit
- clad only in breech-cloth
- compact, bald, distant as described by 13'Sao-La
- danshiki
- described by
  - Cliff
  - himself
  - Norma &2
  - voice by Phoebe
- eyes=agate
- eyes=stone-like
  - described by Phoebe
- formal business suit
- full-length danshiki
- hair-deprived head
- head=bald
- head=permanently depilated
- llevar strapped to his bare right shoulder
- llevar
  - built into his suit's shoulder
- meeting Irwin
  - buffed gleam of his shoes
  - linen shirt
  - maroon bellyplate
  - starched wing collar
  - sweeping bobbed tail of his coat-vest
- pinched shoulders
- sat upright and odorless
- slack semi-formal business suit
- voice=steely
as Governor Pi
- arrives in Bivouac à
- in scene
  - all
  - mentioned
as Partner-in-Charge
backstory
- two brothers and a sister
behavior
- disinterest in sensual
- speech
  - anus, not asshole
  - OK=Adequate &2 &3 &4
character
- basic motivation
- bonded to all innocents abused by his society
- described by
  - Kanpa
- lousy sense of direction
- lustlessness referenced
- ultimate goal
chyme flask hanging across his hips
dealing with anger &2 &3 &4 &5 &6 &7 &8 &9 &10
- a reminder of the days long past when he experienced anger directly
- arises from fear
- he had tamed fear with patience
- JDB does it for him
- now that JDB's gone &2 &3 &4
- psychic bile washed over him, but he reached through it to leadership and prudence
- struck like lightning
- tamed it with patience
- tastes &2
- unleashing it led to Norma's granting his grand wish
edge of everything
- in JDainB's introductory hallucination
- Nature delivers insight
- The Edge of the World
gleest projects
- anonymous in Ganj Dareh will-hears
  - Pizi says he delivered
- bend Pizi to deadline promised to Lugar
- corrupt entry in Collective database
- corrupt Ganj Dareh's Em-Deh &2
- deal with Pizi se
- decrypt BH coag &2 &3 &4
  - Pizi says he delivered
- foil dreamsticks
- he&Lugar too visible to pursue them
- jDub agrees w/Pizi RE Em-Deh identifiers, a failure in his ken
- penetrate Ganj Dareh will-hear
- Pizi won't disable Em-Deh identifiers
- sets deadline for Pizi
- starts negotiations with Pizi
- volatile identities
- wrest control of Pizi away from Thy's tardy ways
has walked on the moons of Yeibichai
his goals
- expunge the Network of Learning and all those other Patterns that punish the weak and fragment the gentle
- he would change the rules
- take charge of transportation, of supplies, of communications, of anshin
- wrest control of Continent Popovich from that idiot Team of Partners
his llevar
- =shmatte
- collar over larynx
- explained
- gnawed delicately at a nerve within his shoulder
- holoscreen in front of Dain's right shoulder
- input
  - by following Dain's fingers using its holoscreen as a keyspace
  - by voice
- releases wards around his table
- strapped to his bare right shoulder
his upset of Ganj Dareh's Em-Deh effective &2
- for last day or so
in BH
- attains rank of Partner
- president of Rendezvous of Futures &2
- role as Director of Infrastructure Technology
in scene
- all &2 &3 &4 &5 &6 &7 &8 &9 &10 &11 &12 &13 &14 &15 &16 &17 &18 &19 &20 &21 &22 &23 &24 &25 &26 &27 &28 &29 &30 &31 &32 &33 &34 &35
- character &2 &3 &4
  - implied
  - indirectly via a message
- mentioned &2 &3 &4 &5 &6 &7 &8 &9 &10 &11
- not printed
  - PoV &2 &3 &4 &5 &6 &7 &8
- PoV &2 &3 &4 &5 &6 &7 &8 &9 &10 &11 &12 &13 &14 &15 &16 &17 &18 &19 &20 &21
injuries self-inflicted during climax
jackal inside BH
Kär
- accessed through llevar with no screen
- appearance
  - eyes=pupil, iris, and sclera shone as a medium gray with just a touch of purple
- calls it from his llevar
- capabilities arose from the minds of its Author-Team
- Dain's private entrance to the Mirnaya Direvnya
- eyes closed, hands air-washed each other before its chin
- fades out in his corner
- get me a meeting with Norma
- had been divested
- in scene
- much better than Phoebe's llevar
- takes order on control of llevar
- w/o K to interpret
- wants to send ~ scampering through the data
mantra
- as JDB
- developed by Bedlip
mental landscape
mentioned in Frontmatter as PoV Character
Name Source
never goes completely naked, even in the shower
re Nature
- a simple life, close to Nature and its integrity
- even the least animate parts of ~ moved when circumstances required it
- humility came only from perspective bestowed by ~
- so much variety in the world's ~
reputation in field
- little
- something about him cleaning up messes ruthlessly, but fairly
- something about Norma grooming him -- or was it hobbling?
residence
- access via catwalk
- bed in thinking position
- bed
  - thinking position
- chyme-bottle chute
- closet
- cot
- hygiene
- shades of gay
- squarish
- working in shadows
resist Thy's violence &2 &3 &4 &5 &6 &7
- act without violence
- considers killing Thy
- foolish to try
- he & Lugar agree she'll never go to violence
- her combine makes final difference in Ganj Dareh
- need for it in the 1st place
- need her energy, never consummate it
- no longer
- now seen as the purest, most direct means to reset the continent to its proper course
- option of brute power
- relish, gives anti-establishment energy to troika
taken charge of 82% of essential combines
tastes
- anger ~ hot steel
- grudging respect ~ lima beans
- righteous anger ~ hot steel
The Edge of the World
the plot
- channels Geld under Norma's nose
- Dain and JDB determined to crack BH with sabotage, competition, & brute force
- final steps in his consolidation of Byukan-Hamil power
- overthrow Norma
- transfer power to another consortium
- win a contract, sell BH Combines to Le Coeur
time to chyme
- Day-09
- downloaded a full bottle 3 days ago
- iliac hooks
trips
- 2 trips to the Inn mentioned
- leaves BH Direvnya behind
- to Ganj Dareh
  - meets with Phoebe
  - saves Child #2
- to Inn of the Laetoli Valley
  - formal dinner of Le Coeur
  - saves Child #1 on the way
vs Cliff
- assigns ~ to run RoF
- free spending will only distract him
- Phoebe and ~ discover that he's their boss
- tells ~ he'll approve all funding requests
vs Ganj Dareh
- trashing the Em-Deh
  - knocking out Gatogrebok's macready
  - rerouted thru single, but enormous tunnel of bandwidth
vs Le Coeur
- its alpha male &2
vs Lugar
- still needs him
vs Norma
- disregards time limit of her proxies
- foiled Dain's talent
- her deadline
- her deadline threatens
- her message recorded for him
- her plan to scare the Ganj-Dareh Collective with too much change was clever
- his jackal to her lioness
- loathes her
- messages read by ~
- remembers his first interview with her
- scene in her entrance room had played out much as he'd hoped
- what could she be dreaming up in her pampered, tutor-educated, ossified brain?
- why she brought him into BH
vs Partners
- Schuess
  - remembers threatening him
  - threatens him
vs Phoebe
- ~ and Cliff discover that he's their boss
- authorize more overtime without pay, then boost demands
- calls her "Heejanus"
- defeat her mano a mano
  - promises himself first shot of victory
  - remembers his promise to himself
- he will order her to stop using the dreamsticks
- his poison attack on ~
- how he jerks her around in anshin will-see
- in continental anshin meeting &2
- local hiring will only distract her
vs Thy
- ~ dominates interaction
- acknowledges her skills
- brags about killing her
- JDB=quick, violent solution to her
- remembers bragging about killing her
vs Tidhar
- meets him
- Norma gonna send ~ to kill him
vs Yojin Suru
- Kär to remind him later
- too slow & oblivious to challange me
when he'd joined Byukan-Hamil
why he's doing all this